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-able vs -eable is not about GB or US spelling
The grammar rule is that the final silent "e" of the root verb is dropped, except for root verbs ending in "ce" and "ge". The rule is the same in British and American English, and so is actual usage according to the Google Ngram Viewer: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=writable%2Cwriteable&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&corpus=en-GB-2019 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=writable%2Cwriteable&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019 We could of course drop this rule from our typo dictionaries, on the basis that it is not widely followed in practice. However, we should the drop all -eable entries, not just this single entry.
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